http://www.cio.com/ en_US (c) Copyright 2008 CXO Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:39:46 GMT 2008-12-02T02:39:46Z en_US (c) Copyright 2008 CXO Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.cio.com/article/112951/IBM_Hints_at_Blade_Servers_for_Small_Firms IBM plans to build a blade server system for small to midsize businesses. For IBM, that means customers with fewer than 1,000 employees. Fri, 25 May 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/112951/IBM_Hints_at_Blade_Servers_for_Small_Firms 2007-05-25T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/107152/IBM_Gives_Peek_at_Blade_Workstation IBM is developing a blade workstation that moves the workstation from under a desk into the data center. Tue, 01 May 2007 04:00:00 GMT Robert Mullins http://www.cio.com/article/107152/IBM_Gives_Peek_at_Blade_Workstation 2007-05-01T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/28063/Sun_Releases_New_Blade_Subscription_Service Sun unveils its latest blade server along with a subscription service to provide customers with automatic hardware upgrades. Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/28063/Sun_Releases_New_Blade_Subscription_Service 2007-01-09T05:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/25412/ClearCube_Chops_PC_Blade_Prices ClearCube Technology slashed prices on its PC blades Monday, setting the company up to compete with standard desktop and tower vendors like Dell and Hewlett-Packard.Until now, ClearCube has sold its computers mainly to customers in health care, financial services and government, who were willing pay a premium for streamlined IT management and increased security. Customers throughout an office use book-sized ... Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/25412/ClearCube_Chops_PC_Blade_Prices 2006-10-02T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/24230/Blade_Server_Sales_Jump_in_Europe Blade server shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa jumped by a healthy 61.4 percent in the second quarter, helping the server market overall to increase by a steady 9 percent, according to new Gartner research.X86 servers also reported steady gains, with unit shipments increasing 10.4 percent compared to the same quarter last year. Servers based on RISC and ... Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/24230/Blade_Server_Sales_Jump_in_Europe 2006-08-25T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/22452/ClearCube_Unveils_New_PC_Blades ClearCube Technology plans to launch two PC blade servers Monday in a bid to compete with Hewlett-Packard for customers in finance, insurance, hospitals and the military.Both blades will use Intel chips and will have enough power to run Microsoft’s pending Vista operating system, which has large processing requirements to support the translucent windows in its graphical interface.The R1300 blade will ... Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/22452/ClearCube_Unveils_New_PC_Blades 2006-06-26T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/22071/HP_Banks_on_Next_Generation_Blade_Architecture Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Wednesday unveiled its next-generation blade server architecture with new features designed to ease data center challenges such as systems management and power and cooling.The new HP BladeSystem c-Class box replaces the company’s existing BladeSystem p-Class, which HP said it will support through 2012. When compared to HP’s rack-mounted systems, the new architecture enables significant acquisition, data-center facilities ... Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/22071/HP_Banks_on_Next_Generation_Blade_Architecture 2006-06-14T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/21910/Walden_to_Bank_M_on_Blade_Server_Growth A venture capital firm is shelling out up to US$100 million to drive worldwide growth of blade-server computing, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.Walden International in San Francisco will invest the money over the next five years into the development of technologies for IBM’s BladeCenter system, IBM said Friday. More than half of the money will be targeted at companies with ... Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/21910/Walden_to_Bank_M_on_Blade_Server_Growth 2006-06-09T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/21611/Fujitsu_Siemens_Unites_SAP_and_Windows_on_Blade_Servers Businesses that seek greater flexibility in running software from SAP and Microsoft together on their blade servers could be interested in new hardware from Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Holding).The Primergy BladeFrame from Fujitsu Siemens has received the SAP Adaptive Computing Compliance stamp of approval to run SAP software on the Windows platform, Bernd Kosch, vice president of alliances at Fujitsu Siemens, ... Wed, 31 May 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/21611/Fujitsu_Siemens_Unites_SAP_and_Windows_on_Blade_Servers 2006-05-31T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/20386/HP_Aims_to_Ease_Linux_Management_on_Blades Hewlett-Packard (HP) Wednesday rolled out software aimed to simplify the management of its BladeSystem blade servers running Linux, said the company. The new software, HP Control Tower, is based on Linux server management software HP acquired from RLX Technologies late last year. It allows users to more easily deploy and monitor their HP BladeSystem servers in a Linux environment, according ... Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/20386/HP_Aims_to_Ease_Linux_Management_on_Blades 2006-04-19T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/20319/Blade.org_Launches_Security_Tools Citing growing membership in its Blade.org organization, IBM Monday touted new security tools developed by group members for BladeCenter servers. Blade.org, formed in February, is geared to drive collaboration and development of new technologies for IBM’s blade servers. IBM said that about 20 new companies have recently joined the group, bringing the total membership to about 60.Blade.org member OpenService has ... Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/20319/Blade.org_Launches_Security_Tools 2006-04-17T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/19969/Sun_Launches_ATCA_Blade_Server_for_Telecom_at_CTIA Sun Microsystems launched a new family of blade servers Wednesday, offering telecommunications customers a choice of processors between Sun’s own UltraSparc or Opteron from Advanced Micro Devices.Sun announced these Netra Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA)-standard blade servers at the CTIA trade show in Los Angeles, Calif. AdvancedTCA is a series of specifications set by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, ... Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/19969/Sun_Launches_ATCA_Blade_Server_for_Telecom_at_CTIA 2006-04-05T04:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/19292/Cray_to_Unite_Scalar_Vector_Computer_Architectures Cray plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four different types of processing capability in a blade server architecture. The platform will run Linux on Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron processors, and should be on the market by 2010, a spokesman said Monday.The company anticipates changes in the nature of high-performance computing applications: Instead of being composed purely of scalar ... Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/19292/Cray_to_Unite_Scalar_Vector_Computer_Architectures 2006-03-20T05:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/19106/Fujitsu_Extends_Opteron_Based_Blades In an effort to extend its blade servers to handle more demanding database applications, Fujitsu Computer Systems Tuesday said its Primergy BX630 blade servers can now be linked together into an eight-socket system. Fujitsu started shipping the Primergy BX630 servers, which are powered by dual-core Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors, late last year. At that time the company said that ... Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/19106/Fujitsu_Extends_Opteron_Based_Blades 2006-03-14T05:00:00Z http://www.cio.com/article/32300/The_Inevitability_of_Blade_Servers Blade servers helped the Mars rover land safely while saving NASA money. That combination of high power and low cost is driving blade technology mainstream. Sat, 15 May 2004 04:00:00 GMT http://www.cio.com/article/32300/The_Inevitability_of_Blade_Servers 2004-05-15T04:00:00Z